Status Updates From The Eyre Affair (Thursday N...

OMG they just met their son from the future

No the Colonel doesn't have marijuana at his table, the UK call a potted plant a pot plant

Also don't worry he'll tie up every plot thread he started

Once again Fforde immediately addresses this sudden burst of misogyny as a way for her to get away from her kidnappers but still

Wow, some astonishing misogyny from Thursday as she calls her rival a gold digger and a tart. She also called her mother a tart.

Considering Thursday has a decidedly traditionally masculine personality it's nice to see some small amount of vulnerability here at the very end

I am legitimately confused about how we're getting details of what happened after the book considering Rochester was telling us how it worked earlier, maybe I wasn't paying enough attention?

Oh. I just had a sneaking suspicion about Hades, and every time I bitch about something Fforde has a response to it

It is exceedingly annoying that Hades abilities are not explained, not their extent or their origin

Fforde shows an almost complete lack of interest in Bertha so far despite there being a whole novel inspired by her

Mr Fforde is not known for his beautifully written sensory details, but you think he could have tried harder once she was inside the book

This doesn't make any sense, he wouldn't be trapped in there, he could take the whole book hostage changing things until they gave him a way out again

Mrs Fairfax decides Thursday must be from Osaka

It's unclear if all the book characters know they're in a book or just some of them, so far all three that have been interacted with have seemed to

This book certainly likes to emphasize and appreciate a loving passion between Jane and Rochester, while I think she could do way better than this disgusting man

I do appreciate that the really truly villainous person in this book is the corporate asshole

As if things weren't complicated enough, the book worms in this scene are adding apostrophes and ampersands to everything and now they're randomly capitalizing and hyphenating words

I can only imagine how little of this book I understood back when I first read it 15 years ago

This is a fine example of why Reed gets so annoyed at stories about time travel. Thursday went into the time distribution and told her past self stuff she remembered her past self being told at the beginning of the book...

Just when I thought we were getting back on track they ran into this temporal distortion she has to deal with, I hope this is relevant

I'm enjoying the running bit about who wrote Shakespeares plays, reasoned thoroughly and interestingly over multiple places in the book

Uranus in this book has only 15 moons, which was what was known until 1997, so even him writing in 2000-2001 his information was either old or it's how it is in that alternate reality, which is an alternate England of 1985, so that's confusing...

The alternate history in this is often confusing, I think that there was a German occupation in England in WWII that isn't discussed much